MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis women's soccer goalkeeper Elizabeth Moberg and baseball third baseman Alec Trela have been named a Sport-Scholar Athlete of the Year by the American Athletic Conference. Chosen by the AAC's faculty athletics representatives, it is the third consecutive year that at least two Tigers have earned this award for his or her respective sport.
Trela, who also won the Commissioner's Postgraduate Leadership Award, is the first Tigers baseball player to garner Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Moberg is the third consecutive Memphis student-athlete to take home Women's Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as she follows Stasia Mallin and Lizzie Woerner who each earned such honors in the last two years respectively.